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Recommended by us on 5th December 2006
...according to our Brian on Tue 05 Dec, 2006.
Both fat Bazzer 'n' my quiet cohort UncleClint (tm) have expressed enthusiasm for the last CD by Hypo on Active Suspension. Now there's a new one (called "Random Veneziano") & I'm up to deliver a diatribe about how great it is. No, really. This is bonkers music made with a totally POP attitude. Joseph Nothing springs to mind at once. Crazy laptop cookie monster beats, utterly jaw-dropping samples, Lo-fi motorik beats under the best tune St. Etienne never made, jerky electro for really crazy people with 17 legs & gameboy pop like Stereolab collaborating with Frederik Schikowski.(& that's just the first few tunes!) This 20 track kaleidoscopic treat is the best thing I've heard in ages. Absolutely stunning!Introduced by the English label Spymania (Jamie Lidell, Squarepusher...) in 2001, Hypo, aka Anthony Keyeux from Paris/ France, followed his own playful-electro peregrinations releasing the "Jingles & singles EP" as well as the "Karaoke A Capella" album on Active Suspension in 2002. Nearly 2 years after its last opus, he comes back w/ another falsely heterogeneous collection of songs, for his 3rd real album "Random Veneziano", a hectic blend of bubble-gum pop bits, bedroom orchestra, messy glicks'n'cuts, noisy pop overtones, synthetic new wave waste, plunderphonic hijacking... Hypo twists and strangles pop music, proudly violating sacred boundaries and conventions. Far from today's overdose of technology, he keeps doing things his own way and develops genuine treasures of imagination with rather minimal means.
Tracklist :
01. Killed Banano
02. New World Menuet
03. Free Days
04. Serpentinouze
05. Mamabotutu
06. Relax Max MSP
07. The Pefect Kill
08. Rigoldrum
09. Do dDodar
10. Second Hand Kotva
11. Porn Potato
12. General Papa
13. Benny Björn Has Gone Forever
14. Instrumental (Vocal Version)
15. World Music
16. Rack Ham
17. Destino
18. The Lost Operette
19. Killed Banano (Disco Version)
20. Random Veneziano
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